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No. It was after the Compromise of 1850 was failing to hold.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
He called it Popular Sovereignty
acceptance of popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah territories
Popular sovereignty was the right of the residents of these territories to vote themselves on the issue of slavery (in this case). In the Compromise of 1850, the territories of New Mexico and Utah were granted popular sovereignty to decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed or not in these areas.
No. It was after the Compromise of 1850 was failing to hold.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
He called it Popular Sovereignty
No most northerners did not like popular sovereignty because it violated the Missouri compromise. The South was in favor of popular sovereignty because it allowed the people to decide if slavery would be allowed in a new territory.
Stephen A. Douglas suggested dropping the Missouri compromise's ban on slavery. Instead, popular sovereignty (the vote of the residents) would decide the issue.
'Popular Sovereignty' was the term coined by Stephen Douglas for a local vote on slavery in each new state as it joined the Union. It was the basis of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was first tested - disastrously - when Kansas was admitted as free soil. This followed the unsuccessful Compromise of 1850, which did not involve Popular Sovereignty.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott v. Sanford
acceptance of popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah territories
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September of that year. The third bill, popular sovereignty, was developed by Lewis Cass and Douglas as the eventual Democratic Party position, letting each territory decide whether to allow slavery.
Utah and New Mexico
Utah and New Mexico